Marcos

Marcos, hello there - great to hear from you mate. Hope all is well down in sunny old Brighton. Thanks for the kind words. I think Chelsea are on target for winning at least the Prem and possibly the Champions League with Big Phil at the helm. The man is a proven World Class talent, up there along with Ferguson, Wenger and Mourinho as one of the best four club managers in the world game right now. My only reservation is if he does not get the cash backing from Roman Abramoovich in the January transfer window. He has shown he can do the business with the players he inherited but has only had the readies to splash out on Deco so far (yes, I know Deco has been a bit off colour of late, but he is recovering from injury and remember his brilliance at the start of the season: the link-up he has with Frank Lampard, which everyone says would flop, has been one of the highlights of the season). The Chelsea squad is top class but needs reinforcements in a couple of areas - in particular I am still not convinced by Malouda and Kalou. I know Big Phil wants to bring in a couple of men to strengthen the squad in those areas - he needs financial backing to do so.

Bad result in Rome - but not the end of the world. The only real thing to come from that match was that the Champions League final should not be played there. The city doesn't deserve it while trouble continues to flare outside the Olympic Stadium, caused by some of the locals. There was aggro again when Chelsea played there (on the back of that dished out when Man United visited last year) and the continued failure to control the troublemakers means the city should forfeit he right to host the CL Final in my eyes. If it was a stadium in England and English fans had caused the trouble, you can be sure the final would already have been taken away and given to another country.